Joseph Delancy

Joseph Delancy (died 1757) was a colonel of the French Army during the French and Indian War.

Biography
Joseph Delancy was the colonel of a regiment of Marines of the French Army that was stationed in Fort Niagara in the Algonquin Territory (present-day northern New York State, United States) at the time of the French and Indian War. In 1757, he led an army of Huron and some French troops into the Allegheny Mountains to hide from the British and later ambush them.

However, the Colonists and their Iroquois allies under General William Johnson attacked the Hurons and their French allies. Delancy and his army was attacked from two directions by the British Colonials and Iroquois Indians, and Delancy's army was routed. Delancy fled from the scene and only his regiment of French line infantry made it out alive. Delancy was attacked by Iroquois chief Hokoleskwa and his army, supported by George Washington's army. Delancy and his remaining 300 French troops were massacred.